Economic progress springs from four sources: division of labor multiplies productivity through specialization, capital accumulation transforms present resources into future productivity, technological progress generates non-rivalrous ideas that overcome physical limits, and entrepreneurial function coordinates everything through creative destruction. State intervention systematically corrupts each source by destroying the property rights and price signals they require. Cryptographic technology now enables these sources to operate beyond political interference. View article →

Small businesses face 41-57% rejection rates for basic trade finance while the same banks hold $192 trillion in derivatives positions. Basel III treats a letter of credit backing real goods as riskier than abstract financial instruments that produce nothing. The system works exactly as designed: extracting value from those who create it, denying credit to those who need it most. View article →

Nice, a ride sharing app powered by nostr just hit @Zapstore by @VariableFate

Ridestr - Zapstore

Request rides and pay with Bitcoin using Cashu ecash. Built on Nostr for censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer ridesharing. Features: - Request rides...

I've had my mind blown each time I read the papers regarding BitVM. It's just insane how much we can build on Bitcoin without changing consensus. Massively bullish. View article →

For fifteen years, Bitcoin has faced a fundamental limitation: most attempts to extend its functionality required trusting custodians without unilateral exit. Exchanges hold your keys. Wrapped bitcoin protocols control the underlying assets. Early sidechains trapped funds behind federation signatures. Each custodial solution creates honeypots that attract both hackers and regulators, with users having no recourse when trust fails. Lightning improved this with unilateral exit mechanisms, yet remained limited to payment channels between specific parties. The search for trustless bridges with arbitrary computation became Bitcoin's holy grail, pursued by brilliant minds yet always remaining just out of reach. View article →

I wasn't happy with @Npub.pro loading speed and limited customization, so I vibed my own Nostr website. All my notes and articles sync to a local cache and build as static pages. Loads instantly and has client-side search. Check it out: towardsliberty.com

John Vervaeke's cognitive science reveals that true agency cannot be computed, only lived through caring organisms that realize relevance. This explains why Bitcoin's thermodynamic proof-of-work and Nostr's self-sovereign identity preserve human agency while algorithmic platforms capture and destroy it. The technologies that matter are those that protect the non-computational processes from which freedom emerges, transcending raw computational speed. View article →

Can I just say how cool it is that on my shit posting app I get notified which parts of my book people really like. Nostr is just awesome. View quoted note →

Software vendors have locked users into a consumption model for decades, distributing pre-compiled binaries that cannot be modified, forcing acceptance of unwanted features, privacy invasions, and inefficiencies. This artificial scarcity ends when artificial intelligence makes source-based installation accessible to everyone. The convergence of AI coding assistants with source-based package managers like Gentoo's Portage and BSD ports creates a new model where users shape software to their exact needs through natural language, while AI agents handle the complexity of compilation, optimization, and patch maintenance. View article →

Murray Rothbard demonstrated that every government intervention reduces to exactly three forms: commanding your isolated action, compelling exchange with the state, or overriding your voluntary exchanges with others. His framework strips away the complexity of interventionist policy to reveal the hegemonic aggression beneath. Understanding this typology is essential for anyone who wishes to see through the state's infinite variety of justifications to its limited repertoire of coercion. View article →

The productive class has always lived in two worlds. There is the official economy of permissions and taxes, where value flows upward to those who produce nothing, and there is the real economy of voluntary exchange, where those who create value find each other despite every obstacle. When the official system spits you out, it does you the inadvertent favor of revealing which economy actually sustains human flourishing. View article →

My recent article on how holding Bitcoin is not a sign of low time preference ruffled some feathers. @Engineer wrote a fantastic article voicing the common critique. View article → I still think that this critique falls short. So here is a response that hopefully helps clarify some misconceptions. I'm curious about the next round of feedback, so let me know what you think! View article →